Well, I looked it up and I was wrong. Ed Koch is just about as craven and naive as Bloomberg. Neither of them understands that the plans to construct this mosque has NOTHING to do with those multitudes of “peaceful” Muslims living amongst us.Their existence doesn’t require it, or justify it on any level. THey already have their own mosques, and this 13 story monument to their ‘faith’ is already redundant even as a concept. Some of them are pinpointed as serving as useful idiots for the would-be Islamic power players like Imam Rauf. Most of them will not frequent the place anyway, which Rauf probably envisions in part as a recruitment center for disaffected Americans looking for something to put some cockeyed and edgy “meaning” in their lives.
If the Muslem leadership were interested in building bridges, as westerners understand the concept, they would have assisted the Greek Orthodox rebuild their destroyed Church at the site, before ever considering such a brazen act.
Muslems everywhere would have everywhere condemned the mass murders and further condemn Hamas, Hezbollah and the MB. Yet, we hear crickets.
In fact, the “Cordoba Initiative” began in 2002. So their was little or no sensitivity to the deaths of thousands of mostly Christians and Jews. It is almost as if the destruction of the towers was planned in order for such a monument to intolerance as this 15 story mosque to be constructed.